Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Sawing off the spoke ends
Using a press on the tyre
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Fitting the felloes together
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Drawknife in use again.
Welding a hub band
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Field gun wheels
Letting off steam
Adzes awaiting handles
Cleaning up the tyre
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Cleaning up the weld
Shaping an adze handle
Clamping the wheel down
Drawknife in use shaping
Close up of the clamping
A taper auger
Cooling the tyre down
An interesting wheel!
Applying a hot tyre
Welding the tyre
The second tyre being hammered in place
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Second tyre nearly in place
Welding the tyre joint
Clamped in place for tyring
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
A pile of iron hubs
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Trimming with a drawknife
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Cooling down
Sawing off the spoke ends
Drawknife in use
Preparing the wheel for tyring
An example of wheel making in the past
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Still cooling off.
Cleaning up the felloes
Using a press on the tyre join
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Welding a tyre
Trimming the felloes
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Shaping with a drawknife
An example of the wheelwrights art
Shaping with a rasp
A wheel in need of repair
Tail vice and dog
Marking out a felloe
Cleaning up
Close up of the hub
Cooling the hot tyre
Cleaning up
Field gun wheels
Shaping with a rasp
Shaped handles just made.
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Checking the tyre circumference
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Detail of the wheel
A traveller in use on the wheel.
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Fitting the hot tyre
A few finishing taps
Boring a hub the traditional way
Welding the tyre
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Hammering the tyre into place
Spot welding
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Second tyre being hammered into place
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
A 12 spoked wheel
Dampening the flames
Cleaning up the tyre
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
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